subsultet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →subsulto, subsultare, subsultavi, subsultatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
keep jumping up; spring up, leap up; (also jerky rhythm);
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...prima est observatio recte pronuntiandi aequalitas, ne sermo subsultet inparibus spatiis ac sonis, miscens longa brevibus, gravia acutis..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...continuabuntur, quia necesse est compositio multis clausulis concisa subsultet. Ideoque etiam brevium verborum ac nominum vitanda continuatio..."